Dedications; Inscriptions; Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Pen drawing; Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Criticism and interpretation; Title pages;
Document consisting of a personal dedication page and the title page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's book entitled George Bernard Shaw his Plays. Published in 1905 by John W. Luce and Co., this was Mencken's "first real book" and the first book...
Correspondence schools and courses; Journalism--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing the first page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's "student's test" for the Associated Newspaper Bureau School of Journalism. Completed but never sent, this document provides a glimpse into the 19-year-old Mencken's aspirations for a...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Document showing the first typescript page of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's commencement address delivered at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute on June 23, 1896, when he was just 15 years old. This first page of Mencken's speech clearly shows his...
Marriage records--Maryland; Maryland--Genealogy; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Registers of births, etc.--Maryland;
Document showing the marriage certificate of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's parents, August Mencken and Anna Margareta Abhau, dated November 11, 1879. This four-page document includes a page to record their own births and the births of their...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Vienna International Exhibition (1873); Women in advertising--United States;
Color advertisement for "Marguerite" cigars printed by Geo. S. Harris and Sons of Philadelphia for H. L. Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars. On the right sitting on a cloak covering a rock is a...
Horse-drawn vehicles; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mount Washington (Baltimore, Md.); Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken in 1892 by James F. Hughes of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (right) and siblings at their summer house in Mount Washington. Standing to the left is Mencken's brother Charles Edward with his youngest brother August (left...
Knapp, Frederick, 1821-1893; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Private schools--Maryland; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document signed by F. Knapp and dated October 27, 1886 in receipt of $4.00 paid by Mr. (August) Mencken for his son Harry's, i.e., H. L. (Henry Louis), Mencken's, first term tuition at F. Knapp's Institute, where H. L. received his early education....
August Mencken and Brother; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Receipts (Acknowledgments);
Document showing the receipt of $400 for one sorrel horse, harness and wagon purchased by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father, August Mencken, signed by Herman Ellis and dated September 26, 1892. It is thought this may be the receipt for the pony...
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Real property tax--Maryland; Receipts (Acknowledgments); Tax collection--Maryland--Baltimore;
Document showing the 1898 property tax bill paid July 27 of that year by H. L. Mencken's father, August Mencken, on their house at number 1524 Hollins Street. With the property assessed at $400.00, the total state and city property tax bill...
Adventure stories--Illustrations; Children's drawings; Fantasy fiction, English--Illustrations; Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth;
Pen and ink drawing of a gentleman standing before a cottage door, done in 1894 by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken to illustrate page 17 of H. (Henry) Rider Haggard's adventure story set in Victorian England and Africa and entitled "The People of the...
Advertising--Tobacco--United States; Baltimore Orioles (American Association : Baseball team); August Mencken and Brother; Cigar industry--United States; Kilroy, Matthew Aloysius, 1866-1940; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and...
Advertisement (color poster) for the Kilroy cigar printed for H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's father's business, August Mencken and Brother, manufacturers of fine cigars, by Isaac Friedenwald of Baltimore. To H. L. and his brothers, this poster was a...
Lancaster (Pa.); Letters; Marriage; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Letter from H. L. Mencken to Virginia Mencken Morrison, June 27, 1941. Virginia Mencken (1915-1980) was the only child of Mencken's brother, Charles. She had married David Morrison the previous month, and this union would generate two sons. Note...
Knapp, Frederick, 1821-1893; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Report cards; Private schools--Maryland;
Document showing H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's final report card for his first year of education at F. Knapp's Institute, dated June 30, 1887. According to the report card, "Master Harry Mencken" was considered to be "a good boy and scholar!" From...
Haardt, Sara, 1898-1935; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Family--Pictorial works; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph taken on August 27, 1930 of the wedding party of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken and Sara Powell Haardt at the entrance to St. Stephen the Martyr Protestant Episcopal Church at North and Warwick Avenues in Baltimore. Standing to the...
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Childhood and youth; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography;
Portrait photograph probably taken about 1894 of H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Baltimore Polytechnic Institute class of 1896. Mencken is sitting in the front row, fourth from the left.
Hotel Rennert (Baltimore, Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Friends and associates; Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956--Pictorial works; Portrait photography; Prohibition--United States;
Photograph taken about 12:30 a.m. April 7, 1933 of H. L. Mencken drinking "his first public glass of post-Prohibition beer" at the Rennert Hotel bar. Located on the southeast corner at Saratoga and Liberty Streets, the Rennert had been one of...
Autobiographies; Baltimore (Md.); Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956;
Document showing first typescript page of the preface to H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken's Happy Days (1940), the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy. These books contain some of the most delightful prose of this American journalist.
